Black Women Playwrights

Visions on the American Stage

• Author(s): Carol P. Marsh-Lockett,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 238
• ISBN_10: 1317944941
  ISBN_13: 9781317944942
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Performing Arts / Theater / General , Art / General , Literary Criticism / Drama ,

Description:... This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.